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by jgwil2 3y ago
> Maybe getting a billboard #1 single and becoming a sensation was the worst thing that could have happened for her. She said as much herself in her recent memoir: “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career, and my tearing the
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Beautiful animals. I hope we can find a way to coexist them.
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Also, "First Officer Quintal caught sight of the fleeing families, but it was far too late to revise their landing plans, so he opted not to distract the captain with the unsettling discovery."
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And at the same time the Texas state government is actively trying to sabotage the industry: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-republican-...
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I'm not. There has to be some kind of physical threat for it to be assault. Smirking is not that. Neither is tearing up paper.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
If she tore it up and threw the pieces in their face then maybe it could be construed as assault. If she was tearing it up and smirking without physically threatening the cops then how could it possibly constitute assault?
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If we have to solve the problem of homelessness before we can have decent public transit... we're going to be waiting a very long time for decent public transit.
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Oddly enough, I've heard other interviewers at my company state they were impressed when a candidate for a junior position used a debugger in the interview.
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> are they using some subset of the language? They're using a derived language called Hack. > Does the compiled code use a garbage collector? Or reference counting? Not sure but it's open source so I'm sure you can dig
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The claim was made about the applicant pool, not the general population. The white population skews considerably older than other groups.
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> In elementary school we had extra stacks we could use to cut out pictures for projects. I remember teachers would solicit old magazines from parents for this purpose. I would never allow them to give away National Geographic though...
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A single data point cannot establish or refute a correlation.
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The benefits of industrialization have accrued primarily to the rich; the negative consequences will be borne largely by the poor. But in any case no one is seriously trying to stop industrial civilization; we are (slowly, inadequately) try
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Urban Foxes Are Starting to Resemble Domesticated Animals (2020)(insidescience.org)
5 points by jgwil2 3y ago|0 comments
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Nobody is suggesting that the Earth itself is under threat. The biosphere will survive but humans, especially those in poorer regions, stand to suffer greatly, and many consider it a moral imperative to mitigate that suffering. The best way
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Really? I would have thought that heads smacking into side windows would be pretty common.
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Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’(nytimes.com)
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> It is perhaps also a factor that both states are relatively multicultural compared to other US states in the region (this applies to AZ and TX as well to some extent, so clearly there are multiple things going on). Arizona is basically
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> Public transit leaves you totally dependent on the government. Who do you think maintains the roads you're driving on?
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Save the Male Chicks(vox.com)
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How'd you get Apple to replace it for free? I thought all coverage would have expired...
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Big discussion 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524702
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230420150051/https://www.nytim...
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Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Rules Create ‘Chaos for Consumers’(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 3y ago|1 comments
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‘Why Do You Still Have Lightning Bugs? Ours Are All Gone.’(nytimes.com)
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Just to add to that, the poster's point is literally contradicted right in the cited article (Spanish wikipedia article on continent): > En realidad no existe una única forma de fijar el número de continentes y depende de cada área
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by jgwil2 4y ago
The CDU adopted their environmental policies precisely to out-green the Greens and undercut their support. If the Greens hadn't been so vehemently anti-nuclear, the CDU wouldn't have gone in that direction. But ultimately this is
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Hmm, I'd say the burden of proof is on you since you're the one arguing that one common usage among many is "right" and all others are wrong.
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You're being very pedantic about something that's fundamentally arbitrary and culturally defined. What makes your preferred usage the correct one?
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Poland’s War on Two Fronts(nytimes.com)
3 points by jgwil2 4y ago|0 comments

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